Background
Born on April 27, 1904, in Ballin togher, Ireland, C. Day Lewis was the only child of the Rev. F. C. Day Lewis. When Cecil was 4, his mother died and the family moved to England.
(Originally published in 1928. A thrilling record of thirt...)
Originally published in 1928. A thrilling record of thirty five years adventures on the trail of the trap line and hunting and guiding big game hunters. The illustrated contents include: Early Days in the Ozark Mountains Hitting the Trap Line Big Bend Country Battling with Coyotes Mexican Bandits Hunting in Maine Wilderness After Black Bear A Charging Bear Trapping Bobcats Deer Hunting in Aroostook etc. Many of the earliest hunting and shooting books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Born on April 27, 1904, in Ballin togher, Ireland, C. Day Lewis was the only child of the Rev. F. C. Day Lewis. When Cecil was 4, his mother died and the family moved to England.
He was educated at Sherborne School on a scholarship and was an exhibitioner at Wadham College, Oxford. Of necessity he taught at various schools until 1935, when he began to give full time to writing, editing, and political activity.
Lewis had written poetry seriously since he was 6 and in 1927 had been coeditor of Oxford Poetry. But his financial independence was achieved through his detective stories, which have been highly praised and have been regarded by some critics as achievements on a par with his poetry. He said of them that they release "a spring of cruelty" that is in all men. During 1941-1946 Lewis was editor of books and pamphlets for the Ministry of Information. In 1946 he was appointed Clark lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1951 professor of poetry at Oxford. He has been said to have mellowed by this time and abandoned the revolutionary direction of his early work, with some loss of force. In 1964-1965 he was the Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard. After 1962 he was a member of the Arts Council; he was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. Throughout his career Lewis published poetry, an increasing amount of criticism, and detective stories signed Nicholas Blake. In 1964 he edited the amended edition of one of his spiritual ancestors The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen. His publications are too numerous to list or to discuss here. In 1968 Lewis was appointed poet laureate. He died in London on May 22, 1972.
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(Originally published in 1928. A thrilling record of thirt...)
Quotations:
"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. "
"Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. "
"We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet. "
"Love is proved in the letting go. "
"There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. "
"It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved. "
"A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. "
"The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. "
"A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry. "
"Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. "
Day-Lewis was twice married and had four children, including Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis, food writer and journalist Tamasin Day-Lewis, and TV critic and writer Sean Day-Lewis, who wrote a biography of his father, C. Day Lewis: An English Literary Life (1980).